Portland's McCormick offered not the silence of being overlooked, but the silence of being gone from this Earth. In the midst of art fair frenzy, it was an intriguing kind of timeout. McCormick was one of the artists selected for the Basel Miami video lounge by Michael Darling, curator of contemporary art for the Seattle Art Museum. Darling was in charge of programming in the lounge and decided to stick with a straight Northwest ticket.
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"It's a clever commercial for Oswalt's CD, "Werewolves and Lollipops," directed by Portland filmmaker/musician/blogger/all-around-cool-guy, Matt McCormick."
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Sarah Meadows has a photo exhibition at Seaplane (827 NW 23rd) right now titled "Every Little Thing" which is a continuation of her work at Mississippi May. You'll know Meadows as she shot "in the morning dear, dearest" for ultra's Point of View section with Holly Stalder, a long time collaborator in photography and fashion.
The pieces for this series were shot using a Mamiya RZ (6×7). Sarah Meadows takes the time to witness moments and objects in the everyday and captures beauty in the mundane. The images are largely still and solemn, painfully intimate, which implies a certain sadness. "I look at the everyday things that sort of break your heart because the moment doesn't last. There's a traffic and environment in people's lives that are ephemeral and fleeting. I don't construct the image, it's something I see and take." She does manipulate the image, however. Many of her photographs are saturated in deep light that definitely creates a mood. She allows the viewer not only a glimpse of a temporary moment that usually goes unappreciated, but reflects the emotion back toward us. To contemplate the beautiful picture of the mundane, we are reminded to look and appreciate a different lens.
Meadows has a photoblog at www.urbanhonking.com/owl, and will have a new website and book finished soon.
Biking and Beer with Hot Knivez This Saturday
If you're not really the Guitar Hero type, here's another (drunker) option for your Saturday: the vegetarian-biking-cooking-podcasting team Hot Knivez will be leading their first biking tour of Los Angeles's best beer stores.
Read the whole entry on LAist.
Get info about the ride from the Hot Knives.
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They post the new video by James Sumner for the song "Women of the World".
Also, in lurking around Jona's press I found the greatest poster ever made for Jona at finchkids.blogspot.com:
Willamette Week's Best of Portland.
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Jessica's Ultimate Portland Bike Nerd Route was posted over on Blogtown, PDX:
Start at the west end of the Steel Bridge, which is cantilevered for bikes and pedestrians, and took 10 years to negotiate with the railway. Cross over and head up to the Rose Quarter Transit Center to check out the 'scramble signal,' which stops all traffic for bikes and pedestrians, but don’t take the signal, because it's much nicer to head south and loop around to NE Lloyd. Head east on Lloyd to 12th, then make a right and cross the not-very-bike-friendly bridge.
Take a left on NE Irving, then a right on NE 23rd at the hot new one-way 'contraflow' bike lane to Glisan. Head east on Glisan to NE 41st and make a right for the bike boulevard. Check out the left-hand turn lanes for bikes at Stark, but keep heading south. Turn right at Taylor, then cross 39th using the bike-only signal (complete with bike-level button). Make a right at 34th and head to Belmont for the brand new on-street bike parking in front of Stumptown.
Head south again on 34th to Lincoln (another bike boulevard), and make a right to cross 20th at a bike-only 'diverter,' which keeps auto traffic to a minimum, then take Ladd's Circle to Ladd and make a right. That puts you at SE 12th, which you can take to Madison, where you turn left to see the blue bike lane at Grand--which gives bikes the right of way--and, soon, an uphill passing bike lane onto the Hawthorne Bridge. After the bridge, you can make a right to catch the brand new Naito bike lane to the Steel Bridge.
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While MTV withers, local music-video directors are making the genre sing again.
As long as musicians make interesting music, filmmakers are going to make interesting music videos. Sure, it's a quick argument otherwise. The medium's progenitor, MTV, has withered into a corporate shell, firing into the dark for the next Real World and packing cuts from their few rotating videos in the after-school, emo-'n'-bling staple, TRL. It's been a long, pathetic decline from the days when the network would proudly premiere new videos from bands like Sonic Youth, New Order and Nirvana, and troll the indie underground with its revered 120 Minutes show. With rare exceptions, mainstream music-video culture has grown positively "Toxic." This is no surprise. Local filmmaker Matt McCormick sums up the mainstream music-video market simply: "It has more to do with the label, the PR, than it does the quality of video."
Read the rest at WWeek.com
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